/*Hoisting is JavaScript's default behavior of moving
all declarations to the top of the current scope (script or function).
Be carefull that only declaration gets hoisted NOT the initialitations*/
var x = 5;
alert("x is = "+x+". y is = "+y);//result => x is = 5. y is = undefined.
var y = 7;
/*
note that the code doesn't produce the error "y is not defined" like
it would if we would omit y. It executes but not in the way you would want.
*/
/*
Hoisting in JavaScript is a behavior in which a function
or a variable can be used before declaration
*/
// using test before declaring
console.log(test); // undefined
var test;
// why does javascript have hoisting?
As Stoyan Stefanov explains in "JavaScript Patterns" book, the hoisting is
result of JavaScript interpreter implementation.
The JS code interpretation is performed in two passes.
a) During the first pass, the interpreter processes
variable[NOT the initialitations] and function declarations.
b)The second pass is the actual code execution step. The interpreter processes
function expressions and undeclared variables.
Thus, we can use the "hoisting" concept to describe such behavior.
1)Before your javascript(.js) file run there is global execution context
that is created even file is empty.Two phase Creation phase and Execution Phase.
2)In creation phase GEC create global object and this.In browser global object
will be browser.Javascript engines allocate memory for function even before your
code run.
3)After creation phase,There is Execution phase.
sayHi() //hello
function sayHi(){
console.log("hello")
}
Javascript already know your function even before it is executed
because of hoisting as in creation phase it memorized all javascript function
declaration.
sayHi(); //error out because of sayHi is const varible not exact function.
const sayHi= function (){
console.log("hey")
}
var defaultname = "John";
var name = "rayn";
function doit() {
if(!name){
var name = defaultname;
}
return name;
}
var ourname = doit();
console.log(ourname); //John
// because name inside function will have more priority over outside name variable.
// And, this inside name variable will be declared in memory as undefined due to hoisting.